Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a 1975 British comedy film concerning the Arthurian legend, written and performed by the Monty Python comedy group of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin, and directed by Gilliam and Jones. It was conceived during the hiatus between the third and fourth series of their BBC television series Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
- Starring : Graham Chapman / John Cleese
- Genre : Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy
- Country : United Kingdom
- Language : English / French / Latin
- Director : Terry Gilliam / Terry Jones
- Production : Python (Monty) Pictures / Michael White Productions / National Film Trustee Company
- Distributor : EMI Films / Ambassador Film Distributors / British Empire Films Australia / CFDC-UGC / Cinema 5 Distributing / Greater Union Organisation (GUO) / 20th Century Fox / CFM Filmverhuur / PAC Cinematografica / Cinema International Corporation (CIC) / Fox-Stockholm Film Distribution / CBS / Gaurav Arts / Herald Film Company / Brent Walker Video / Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment / Fox Films / Thorn EMI Video Australia / RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video / CBS/Fox Video / Lauren Films / Lauren Films Video Hogar S.A. / Columbia TriStar Home Video / Creative Exposure / Rainbow Releasing / Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment / Manga Films / Sony Video / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Asociace Ceských Filmových Klubu (ACFK) / Sonoro Filme / Trafalgar Releasing / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Atlas Video / BMG Video / Columbia TriStar / Egmont Entertainment / Interglobal Home Video / MTV3 / Netflix / Pan-Canadian Film Distributors / Pan-Canadian Video Presentations / Scanvideo / Screentime / Showtime Video / The Criterion Collection / Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Nordic / VTI Home Vídeo / Yleisradio (YLE)
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail release date
- March 14, 1975 : USA (Los Angeles, California) (premiere)
- April 9, 1975 : UK (London)
- April 28, 1975 : USA (New York City, New York)
- May 25, 1975 : UK
- June 8, 1975 : USA (Chicago, Illinois)
- June 27, 1975 : Ireland
- August 14, 1975 : Australia
- December 3, 1975 : France
- April 15, 1977 : Sweden
- May 23, 1977 : Spain (Barcelona)
- August 8, 1977 : Spain (Madrid)
- August 16, 1979 : Japan
- December 6, 1979 : India
- June 15, 2001 : USA (re-release)
- March 27, 2002 : France (re-release)
- December 4, 2009 : Canada (Toronto) (re-release)
- September 18, 2011 : Japan (re-release) (Old Town Taito International Comedy Film Festival)
- October 4, 2013 : France (War on Screen International Film Festival)
- October 14, 2015 : UK (re-release)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail cast
- Graham Chapman as King Arthur / Voice of God / Middle Head / Hiccoughing Guard
- John Cleese as Second Swallow-Savvy Guard / The Black Knight / Peasant 3 / Sir Launcelot the Brave / Taunting French Guard / Tim the Enchanter
- Eric Idle as Dead Collector / Peasant 1 / Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir Launcelot / First Swamp Castle Guard / Concorde / Roger the Shrubber / Brother Maynard
- Terry Gilliam as Patsy / Green Knight / Old Man from Scene 24 (Bridgekeeper) / Sir Bors / Animator / Gorilla Hand
- Terry Jones as Dennis’s Mother / Sir Bedevere / Left Head / Prince Herbert / Voice of Cartoon Scribe
- Michael Palin as First Swallow-Savvy Guard / Dennis / Peasant 2 / Right Head / Sir Galahad the Pure / Narrator / King of Swamp Castle / Brother Maynard’s Brother / Leader of The Knights Who Say NI!
- Connie Booth as The Witch
- Carol Cleveland as Zoot / Dingo
- Neil Innes as First Monk / Singing Minstrel / Page Crushed by the Rabbit / Peasant #4
- Bee Duffell as Old Crone
- John Young as Dead Body / Historian Frank
- Rita Davies as Historian’s Wife
- Avril Stewart as Dr. Piglet
- Sally Kinghorn as Dr. Winston
- Mark Zycon as Prisoner
While the group’s first film, And Now for Something Completely Different, was a compilation of sketches from the first two television series, Holy Grail is a new story that parodies the legend of King Arthur’s quest for the Holy Grail. Thirty years later, Idle used the film as the basis for the musical Spamalot.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail grossed more than any other British film exhibited in the US in 1975. In the US, it was selected as the second-best comedy of all time in the ABC special Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time. In the UK, readers of Total Film magazine in 2000 ranked it the fifth-greatest comedy film of all time; a similar poll of Channel 4 viewers in 2006 placed it sixth.
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